Download or read book The Clown written by Heinrich Boll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to “save” Germany from the Jews, then worked for “reconciliation” afterwards. Heinrich Böll’s gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealism—how to find something to believe in—gives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one.

Download or read book Group Portrait with Lady written by Heinrich Boll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.

Download or read book Absent Without Leave written by Heinrich Böll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the novellas When the War Broke Out and When the War Was Over, originally published in German by Insel- Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1962 and subsequently published as Absent Without Leave by Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Koln, 1964. The English translation first appeared in 1965 and was published in the US by McGraw-Hill. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Casualty written by Heinrich Böll and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories, written between 1946 and 1952 are stunning accounts of German soldiers in a war they did not want and the bleak aftermath of Germany in ruins. This Nobel Prize-winner's other works include Billiards at Half-Past Nine, The Clown, Group Portrait with Lady, and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.

Download or read book The End of a Mission written by Heinrich Böll and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 1968 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Or How Violence Develops and where it Can Lead written by Heinrich Böll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.

Download or read book The Safety Net written by Heinrich Böll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.

Download or read book The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll written by Heinrich Boll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form These diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story form. Includes all the stories from Böll’s The Mad Dog, Eighteen Short Stories, The Casualty, and The Stories of Heinrich Böll. A Nobel Laureate, Böll was considered a master 20th century literature, and The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll contains some of his finest work.

Download or read book What s to Become of the Boy Or Something to Do with Books written by Heinrich Böll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981, Heinrich Boll returned to the streets of his childhood in this remarkable collection of nonfiction. This volume captures the musings of a mature Boll as he looks back with fondness and with anger on his formative years: as a student who avoided school but lived for his education on the street; and as a young man forced to grapple with the moral horror that was Hitler. What's to Become of the Boy - superbly translated by Leila Vennewitz - provides uncommon insight into Boll's maturation as an author and as a man.

Download or read book And where Were You Adam written by Heinrich Böll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the McGraw-Hill translation (1970) of Boll's great novel of WWII. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book A Soldier s Legacy written by Heinrich Boll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-23 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943 Wenk, a German soldier guarding the Normandy coast, finds himself in a war where the main enemies are loneliness and misery. Corruption is rampant in the High Command: supplies are being siphoned off, and the starving, exhausted soldiers must cross their own minefields to steal potatoes from nearby farms. Against all army rank and protocol, Wenk becomes friends with Lieutenant Schelling, whose protests on behalf of his men have incurred the wrath of another officer. When the company is transferred to the Russian front, heightened fear, suspicion, and mistrust explore the soldiers' barely maintained order into a chaos of desperation. "The great strength of this short novel is its steadfast refusal to glamorize. . . . The clear-eyed wisdom that emerges from it makes it a remarkable achievement." --William Boyd, New Republic "Böll is a master storyteller." --New York Times

Download or read book The Stories of Heinrich B ll written by Heinrich Böll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 63 stories and novellas by one of Germany's greatest writers.

Download or read book Irish Journal written by Heinrich Boll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique entry in the Böll library, Irish Journal records an eccentric tour of Ireland in the 1950's. An epilogue written fourteen years later reflects on the enormous changes to the country and the people that Böll loved. Irish Journal is a time capsule of a land and a way of life that has disappeared.

Download or read book And Never Said a Word written by Heinrich Böll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Billiards at Half past Nine written by Heinrich Böll and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1962 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-generation story of a family of German architects who, in rebuilding their destroyed abbey, personify the alternate destruction and rebuilding of their country.

Download or read book Heinrich B ll s Ansichten Eines Clowns and Heideggerian Existentialism written by Loren Ray Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women in a River Landscape written by Heinrich Böll and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boll's last novel, politicians, bankers, and public relations men of the new postwar Germany cruise through the social murk seeking alliances, victims, and territory. But behind the men's self-important posturings, their wives and mistresses talk from the privacy of their riverside villas with irrepressible candor. Their conversations and musings reveal the bitterness and failure of an entire generation that has sold out, chosen to forget, and by doing so deprived itself of a future. Women in a River Landscape is Boll's final indictment of the greedy quest for power and its ruinous effect. Completed shortly before his death and published posthumously, this is its first publication in paperback.